it’s so funny that there’s a battle city dvd in ygo canon i imagine kaiba saw joey literally die and was like “roland burn this onto discs and sell it immediately”
I wonder if he edited the footage so he won his duel with Yugi. XD
i like the duel with the pharaoh vs malik’s mime because they get so wrapped up in the mythology of what they’re doing – destiny, the power of the egyptian god cards, atem is paralyzed with fear when osiris the sky dragon is summoned, he’s about to give up bc of the ~ infinite combo – that they forget they’re also playing a highly structured, orderly game with mutually agreed-upon rules like “you lose if you have no more cards left to draw.” like, that’s what happens when your villainous plot to murder the pharaoh relies almost entirely on card games
i also like this duel because kaiba shows up halfway through yelling GET UP AND FIGHT GOD!!!!, and then in the next duel, the tag team duel, atem is like, very level-headed, “kaiba, calm down. remember, teamwork. we’ll win if we cooperate and work together. as a team.”
Drive your fork into its unwilling flesh as though sinking a sharp blade into the flesh of the Pharaoh, or burying his lifeless and defiled corpse in the muds of hell itself.
Step Two: INTIMIDATE
Glare at your food. It doesn’t matter with steak, but if you get out of the habit of glaring at anything you stab, or anything you intend to sink your teeth into, what the fuck are you even playing at?
Step Three: UNHINGE JAW, EXTEND FANGS
Should be obvious.
Step Four: REND
TEAR THE FLESH WITH YOUR TEETH! USE THE VIOLENCE OF YOUR MOTIONS AND THE CLENCHED MUSCLES OF YOUR BITE TO RIP FLESH ASUNDER! SPLATTER THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR SAVAGERY ACROSS THE WALLS IN BLOOD AND THE JUICES OF DEAD FLESH!
Step Five: SAVOUR
Enjoy the rich flavours and aromas. Take a moment to sit with them.
Step Six: CRITIQUE
Fill out a comment card, if there is one. Use blood instead of ink. Never trust Kaiba’s fucking so-called head chef with an order for rare steak again. Bastards.
STEP SEVEN: HAVE YOUR HOST CLEAN UP THE AFTERMATH
Well, bugger all. That was my favourite t-shirt.
LOL at this whole thing, especially Step 7 XDD The best part is how HAPPY he looks before biting in–it’s the only time he smiles about something unrelated to evil plans. He really enjoys a good meal!
Image of Marik trying to do a little baton twirl with the rod as a flourish but fucking it up really bad so the thing clatters loudly to the ground five feet away and then panicking and wiping the memory of every witnessing ghoul in the vicinity
Yugioh likes to friendship its villains but it’s generally pretty fraught or reluctant which is why I really like how by the end of Battle City Marik not only clearly feels sort of indebted to Yugi and co. and goes out of his way to help him but when they show up in Luxor near the end of the series to visit they’re all HYPE to see each other. Of all the ygo villains being forcibly dragged into vegetafication Marik Ishtar specifically is like “god I cannot wait to be assimilated into the Yugi Muto Friendship Miasma. do you guys want to go to the arcade after this? i will let you ride sidecar on my motorcycle. is there a secret handshake? do we get jackets? do you guys listen to evanescence”
